Example sentences of "[adv] but [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zoser served her politely but with an air of detachment , as if his mind was on higher things . |
| 2 | The final line-up is SDLP 17 , up two with a slightly improved vote , Sinn Fein five , as before but with an increased overall vote , DUP five , up from four even though the party 's vote dropped slightly , Ulster Unionist two down one with a reduced vote and Independent Unionist 1 . |
| 3 | She looked away , not coyly but with an elusive smile . |
| 4 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 5 | ‘ No , Katherine , ’ he said evenly but with an undertow of insistence . |
| 6 | The slow deliberacy with which the wife commences her reply , with not a hint of offence in her reaction but rather a hint of care in selecting the right mode of reply , emphasizes her willingness to converse on the topic : So does her subsequent appropriation of a rhetorical device , the occupatio , a statement emphasized by the speaker feigning unwillingness or lack of freedom to express it : The monk too takes a moment 's pause before replying : again seeming to digest the implications of the wife 's words , or ( and ? ) to express , silently but with an eloquent action , astonishment at the wife 's ready invitation to him to continue to converse on this topic . |